Seven Sins Quotes

• All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

  Angus Wilson

  Pride, Feet, Self

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• The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

  Dave Mustaine

  Fun, Book, Pride

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• Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

  Joseph Epstein

  Fun, Envy, Sin

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• In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Should Have, Boredom

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The Rosemary Tree”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

  Corey Taylor

  Mind, Tools, Seven Deadly Sins

  Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.99, Da Capo Press

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• The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

  Corey Taylor

  Letting Go, Past, Two

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• I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Book, Envy, Wish

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• Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

  David Mitchell

  Soul, Sin, Hell

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• Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Christian, Hurt, Indulge In

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

  Douglas Coupland

  Sin, Conflict, Seven

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• Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

  Reid Hoffman

  Greed, Ego, Sloth

  "Reid Hoffman", www.wsj.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

  John Milton

  Power, Light, Long

  Paradise Lost bk. 2, l. 432 (1667)

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• Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Faith, Mother

  Charles Dickens, Ich ([pseud.].) (1856). “Immortelles from Charles Dickens”, p.112

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• I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair; toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Men, Despair, Olympus

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Glass”, p.476, Simon and Schuster

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• Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Kings, Fun, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014

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• But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

  Edward Abbey

  Wrath, Lust, Next

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don't care, and you don't care that you don't care.

  Mishka

  Sorrow, World, Care

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• No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

  Chuck Eddy

  Hair Metal, Radio, Albums

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• Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the least sexy of the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas winnowed it down for me: acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh prevails completely over the spirit. You don’t just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don’t care, and you don’t care that you don’t care.

  Mishka

  Christian, Sexy, Sadness

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• In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

  Joseph Epstein

  Envy, May, Sin

  Joseph Epstein (2003). “Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Children, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1472, e-artnow

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• I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

  Christopher Marlowe

  Book, Oysters, Envy

  Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  Samuel Butler

  Christian, Believe, Health

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.

  Rakim

  Rap, Ghetto, Wind

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